Touchscreen

​Smartphone screens seem to crack at the slightest breeze, but researchers at the University of Sussex might have a hardier alternative. A new material made of graphene and silver could lead to touchscreens that are tougher, easy to manufacture, more responsive, less power-hungry, and even bend.​

SproutBox Design says its Aivia speaker has similar smarts to Google's Home speaker and Amazon's Echo, but with better sonic output. Like those devices, it can be controlled by voice, but it also has a touchscreen, a video camera, a wireless device charging surfaceand a 15-watt subwoofer out back.​

The original Kia Rio was miles off the pace when it launched, but the formula has been refined to the point where the car you see here has the looks and tech to compete with German and Japanese class leaders. But does it drive like the best? New Atlas spent the week with a Rio SLi to find out.

Cars need to tell us where to go, facilitate phone calls on the fly, stream our favorite music and, crucially, they can't be distracting while doing all of this. That's no mean feat. So how does Suzuki's onboard infotainment system stack up?

​Organizing an office full of people on a project can be tough, and it’s even more chaotic in the modern workforce, when that group can be meeting from anywhere in the world. To try to bring that to order, Cisco is pitching the Spark Board to use the cloud to replicate visual brainstorming sessions.

If you've been dreaming of a MacBook with a touchscreen, the odds that Apple will ever indulge your fantasy look slim to none. That leaves room for products like Neonode's AirBar to fill in that gap. We took the new MacBook Air-compatible AirBar for a spin at CES 2017.

Panasonic becomes yet another company to show its vision of the car cabin of the future at CES this week. Its concept explores next-gen tech like interactive 4K displays, augmented reality, personal audio zones and facial recognition.

PrimaLuceLab has turned its hand to helping the Nikon D5500 cut down noise. The cooling unit attached to the DSLR body may ruin its portability, but the Italian company says it allows astrophotographers to take images of a quality​ to rival cooled CCD cameras without sacrificing ease of use.

Inspired by a scene from a 2008 Batman movie, engineers from the University of Michigan (UM) have developed software that could bring touch sensitivity to all phones – and not just through their screens.

A shape-shifting touchscreen prototype called the Cubimorph is being presented at a robotics forum this week in Stockholm, Sweden. The Cubimorph is made up of a chain of cubes with touchscreen faces, that lock together in various configurations.

Smartwatches may be less cumbersome than smartphones, but those little screens of theirs can only display a limited amount of content. That's why researchers have created a prototype smartwatch with two touch-sensitive screens.​